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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Be careful, This is extremely graphic. It's also sad to think this guy could have lived an happy life, but Putin decided for him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate posts like this. Chances are the dude didn't want to be there in the first place but didn't have a choice. He wanted out so bad he ate a grenade. Another senseless casualty in this stupid invasion...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but the choice was only in how he dies. He likely didn't have an effective or practical way to avoid getting conscripted, and attempting to surrender or defect means he likely gets shot in the back by his own officers or noncoms. Or he can fight, and possibly survive, but maybe he believes that to be morally despicable. Maybe he was already injured, and knew that there was no significant chance of a medevac, and so ended his own life quickly rather than waiting to bleed out or die from infection.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Surrender and desertion are always choices. And while there's a risk of death when trying to surrender or defect, that means there's a chance he will live.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Putin played apart, but it takes a village. That psychos rhetoric trickles down and all of the people at the top that organize for him are also to blame. Either way I’m sad for this guy and his family

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

He's responsible for his own actions. Now he owned up to them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I can't even imagine feeling the desperation this guy felt, or maybe guilt. What a fucking shitshow...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dude I let out an audible "Oh shit!"

[–] MelastSB 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He ain't gonna be in Rush Hour 3

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] ALERT -2 points 1 year ago